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'''Deepa Fernandes ''' is the former host of the [[WBAI]] radio program ''[[Wakeup Call]]''. She has formerly hosted the nationally syndicated Pacifica radio news show ''Free Speech Radio News'' on the politically independent, anti-war [[Pacifica Radio Network]]. Fernandes has worked as a freelance producer for the [[British Broadcasting Corporation]], the [[Australian Broadcasting Corporation]], [[InterWorld Radio]] and [[Pacifica Radio]].

==Biography==
Born in [[Mumbai]], [[India]], to parents of [[Goa]]n descent, Fernandes began her career in journalism in [[Sydney, Australia]], working as a daily news reporter. She then moved to [[Latin America]], where she worked on a 26-part [[radio documentary]] series on [[Indigenous peoples of the Americas|indigenous]] communities in [[Ecuador]]. From there she went to [[Cuba]] to work as a daily features producer at [[Radio Havana Cuba]].

Fernandes next moved to [[New York City]], where she went to work as a producer for the flagship [[Pacifica Radio]] program, ''[[Democracy Now!]]''. At Pacifica's WBAI she co-produced ''[[Our Americas]],'' a weekly radio program on issues affecting Latin America and the Caribbean, and hosted the weekday morning show, ''Wakeup Call.'' She also has been a co-anchor for Pacifica's national daily news program, ''Free Speech Radio News''.

In January 2007, Fernandes spoke with ''Democracy Now's'' [[Amy Goodman]] about her new book, ''Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration'', published by [[Seven Stories Press]]. She told Goodman that she "got into secondary inspection rooms around the country, because I had to, because I was coming in the country and I was processed through there."<ref>[http://www.democracynow.org/2007/1/25/targeted_homeland_security_and_the_business ''Democracy Now'' interview] January 25, 2007</ref>

In 2012, Fernandes was a Knight Fellow at Stanford University. In 2013 Fernandes joined the staff of NPR member station KPCC in Pasadena, California. She covers a newly established beat on Early Childhood Development.

Fernandes holds an MA from [[Columbia Journalism School]]. Her sister, Sujatha, is an assistant professor of sociology at [[Queens College]] in New York City.

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.wakeupcallradio.org/ Wakeup Call]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20051031163539/http://www.fsrn.org/history.html Free Speech Radio News]
*[http://goanvoice.org.uk/supplement/DeepaFernandes.htm Deepa Fernandes' biography]
*[http://www.iranproject.org/credits/fernandes.html The Iran Project: Biography on Deepa Fernandes]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20061016035730/http://www.sevenstories.com/Book/?GCOI=58322100771320 Targeted: National Security and the Business of Immigration] ''[[Seven Stories Press]]''
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070214025106/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07%2F01%2F25%2F153210 Deepa Fernandes on Democracy Now! January 25th, 2007]
*[https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9818037 Deepa Fernandes on NPR]
*[http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=3106 Deepa Fernandes interviewed on F.A.I.R's CounterSpin]
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>Bearcat at 22:44, 3 July 2021